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Donate 10% of Profits to Charity



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Mark







PostPosted: July 14, 2003 09:49 AM 

In my opinion, most companies don't do enough to contribute to charitable causes. If a company is making a profit, I think it should give a small percentage of those profits to charity. I won't get into the math, but if every major company in the world gave 10% of profits to charity, think of the huge impact that it could have. There is nothing specific about the Blog Cooperative model that lends itself to this practice (all companies can do it), but I propose that Blog Coops set an example and embrace this practice.

Josef Davies-Coates







PostPosted: September 8, 2003 02:01 PM 

Rather than giving money to charities (most of which suffer from terribly wasteful inefficiencies), I prefer the idea of establishing some kind of global commons fund (to be used to grow, protect and maintain commons - i.e. buy land etc.) jointly owned by all members.

All member projects or organisations would agree to give 10% of revenue to the global commons fund, and the liquid democracy/ reputation systems would decide exactly how the fund is spent.


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